“I’ve read your file. A case could have been made for self-defense.”
“Didn’t matter. Kenneth sealed my fate when he made his arrangement. Pulling her into that shit, no fucking way.”
Killian could appreciate that. In his shoes, under those circumstances, he wasn’t sure what he’d have done. But his instinct was to hold on, not to let go. His thoughts went back to the money. “Someone knows you took it, and the way to you is through Cedar. That’s why you’re here.”
“Something like that, but they won’t touch her.”
“No, they won’t.”
A pause before a thread of regret tinted his tone. “She needs closure. We both do. I won’t get another chance.”
As much as he didn’t want this man around Cedar because she’d see him as the man he’d been, not the man he was now, he was right. He’d been sheriff long enough to know a cold-blooded killer when he saw one. It might have been self-defense when he took his father’s life, but that wasn’t the case for the countless deaths that followed, and he was damn sure there were many that followed. As much as it went against everything in him, she needed closure. Even if she hadn’t told him that, the pain buried behind her eyes screamed it. “She’s home.”
“I know.” He clenched his jaw. “It eats me alive...” He inhaled. “I loved her. Never loved anyone before her or after her. She’s my tether to the man I was, that last piece of my humanity.” He leveled those cold eyes on him before he added, “I’ve come to cut that tether.”
Even knowing it needed to be done, it was going to break her heart all over again, but this time, he’d be there to put the pieces back together. “Keep your shit out of my town,” Killian warned.
“Or what?”
“I run those plates outside. I upload the surveillance photos I’ve got of you, so every agency has faces to go with the names, and I’ll leak the info to the Feds, so they can follow the money, just like I did.”
“Who the fuck are you? No small-town sheriff has a reach that long.”
“All you need to know is I’m the fucking law.” Killian turned his back on the man and walked to the door. “And if you have a mind to take me out.” He reached it. “It won’t be as easy as you think.”
He drove toCedar’s. Found her sitting on her new porch. He climbed from the truck.
“Hey, Sexy. Are you hungry?”
He was. She saw it, too, when her eyes went all soft. He strode to her, grabbed her hand and pulled her inside, down the hall to her bedroom. Kicking the door closed, he grabbed her face and kissed her. Her arms moved around him, pressing herself against him, her tongue warring with his.
He wasn’t gentle when he pulled her tee over her head, unclipped her bra. He yanked his mouth from hers, his focus shifting to her breasts. He cupped one, tongued her nipple, before he drew the tight bud into his mouth.
“Oh god.” She moaned, her hands fisting his shirt.
He turned his attention to her other breast, his hands moved over her body, pushing her sweats down her legs. And then impatient, he lifted her, dropped her on the bed, and yanked them off. Dropping to his knees, pulling her ass to the edge, he finally got his first taste of her.
He groaned when her flavor coated his tongue, and then, greedy for more, he pushed his tongue deep into her.
“Yes!” She moaned, her hips moving to take him deeper. He tongued her clit, pushed two fingers into her.
“Killian.” She groaned and writhed, her hands fisting the sheets.
He worked her clit with his thumb, his tongue going deeper, in and out, lapping up her juices, as she moaned in pleasure. He brought her to the edge then worked his zipper and pulled his jeans down enough to free his cock. Hot eyes stared at him. She fisted his cock, ran a hand up then down. He groaned. Lifting her hips, she centered him, and he dove in.
“Fuck you feel good,” he growled.
She whimpered, arched her back, her tits rising and falling, as her breathing grew heavier. He pulled out, sank back in.
“Deeper.”
He pulled out, went deeper.
“Oh god. Don’t stop.”
His fingers dug into her thighs as he fucked her, hard and fast, her moans answered with his own, the sound of skin smacking against skin filling the silence in between. His thumb found her clit again, rolling it in a circular pattern as he drove into her hard and fast.
“Oh god. Oh god. Oh...Killian!” she screamed, as her pussy milked his cock.